“I was amazed by some of the products that Pogue showed off or talked about. A top-of-the-line camera that fits in your pocket. An app that turns your iPhone into a musical instrument. Ways to ensure that you never lose an internet signal.

These products will encourage creativity and connectivity, and Pogue is helping to escort in a new era. His hour-long presentation carried with it the ability to get even technology novices excited and inspired about what’s to come.

With so much new technology already in place, that’s the biggest obstacle standing in the way.”

One who has had great success with picking a trend and capitalising on it is Zynga’s Mark Pincus. He has made a large fortune from online gaming and allying it to the Net’s social revolution.

Farmville, the addictive game on Facebook is one of his better known successes and he was an early investor in both Facebook and Napster, the P2P music sharing site.